Using immunohistochemistry to assess the accuracy of histomorphologic diagnosis of aspergillosis and mucormycosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1664-1670

  Jung, Jiwon ^a   Park, Young Soo ^b   Sung, Heungsup ^a   Song, Joon Seon ^b   Lee, Sang Oh ^a   Choi, Sang Ho ^a   Kim, Yang Soo ^a   Woo, Jun Hee ^a   Kim, Sung Han ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (South Korea)

Author keywords

aspergillosis; histomorphology; immunohistochemistry.; mucormycosis

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLOGY; MUCORMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; ASPERGILLUS; INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; RHIZOPUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASPERGILLUS; DATA ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOPUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951941711     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ660     Document Type: Article

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